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Friday, February 23, 1923
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The Headlines
600 POLICE ENCIRCLE RUHR MEETING HERE; Riot Squad With Rifles, Patrol- men and Mounted Force Led by Lahey. BORAH SENDS REGRETS Garden Crowd Applauds At- tacks on Occupation -- Little- ton Stands By France. 600 POLICE ENCIRCLE BIG RUHR MEETING
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Frank Silver & Irving Cohn
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- George Frideric Handel (1685)
- Karl Jaspers (1883)
- Kazimir Malevich (1878)
- Pope Paul II (1417)
- Erich Kästner (1899)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,723 days ago
(103 years, 128 days)